Background Patients awaiting surgical procedures often experience significant anxiety.
Such anxiety may result in negative physiological manifestations, slower wound healing …

Pain is a subjective and multidimensional experience that is often inadequately managed in
clinical practice. Effective control of postoperative pain is important after anesthesia and …

It is common clinical experience that anxiety about pain can exacerbate the pain sensation.
Using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI), we compared activation …

Background: Preoperative anxiety has adverse effects on children and negative impacts on
postoperative rehabilitation. Anesthesiologists can accurately identify children with …

Although more severe acute postoperative pain increases the risk of chronic pain following
breast cancer surgery, few studies have examined the characteristics of patients who …

The experience of pain is affected by remarkable psychological factors. The concept of
neuromatrix suggests that pain is an amalgam of affect, cognition, and sensation mediated …

Purpose In patients who are hospitalized for surgery, anxiety disorders are frequently
observed. Anxiety affects the patient's perception of postoperative pain and has a negative …

PREOPERATIVE ANXIETY is a common component of the surgical experience, and
increased levels of anxiety may alter a patient's surgical course and cause increased …

Objective: To critically evaluate the interpretation of the findings reported in the peer-
reviewed literature concerning the association of state and trait anxiety with surgical …

Pre‐operative anxiety is common and often significant. Ambulatory surgery challenges our
pre‐operative goal of an anxiety‐free patient by requiring people to be 'street ready'within a …